Mrs. Butterworth

Mrs. Butterworth (left), April, 2006, BLM land just west of Zion National Park. This is a climb we did in 2005, a huge swarm of bees buzzed us on route. This year I found some incredible climbing west of the park that zig zags in and out of Zion and BLM land. Tons of deer and elk, that elk herd is over 200. Our herds never exceed 40 or 50. Met an old timer that had several mountain lion stories as well. Very cool place, tons of untouched routes.

""You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.""
--Rene Daumal